Communities
topic on 8 shows · 11 statements across 11 episodes
Acquired 
My First Million 
No Priors 
the Startup Ideas Podcast 
Catalyst 
How I Built This 
the a16z Podcast 
20VC
11 statements about Communities, every show
Janous: Data center industry fails by fighting emotional backlash with facts
“I think the industry has tried to attack this with facts. And really miss the emotional resonance of, like, people just aren't happy about this stuff right now.”
Nadella: Hyperscalers will lose permission to build data centers without community benefits
“Unless we as an industry are very principled about ensuring That the benefits of all the stuff we're talking about are felt in real ways at the community level... Then we will have permission. If it is not, we won't have permission.”
Gilbert: Research shows taxpayer-funded stadiums are at best breakeven for communities
“And every piece of research you read there is like, yeah, they're at best breakeven for communities, unless it's part of some like larger economic redevelopment thing.”
Slack deliberately avoided sales outreach to community workspaces despite high user counts
“And so at Slack, we saw that our biggest workspaces were actually communities. They were professional networks that were using Slack to trade best practices. There were student groups that were using Slack to work on projects. And the sales team was tempted to…”
Neumann: Communities either build something greater or devolve into mob mentality
“There are multiple kinds of communities. There are great communities when a group of people gets together to build something greater than themselves, and then there are communities, which we've seen, I think, more and more of, where there, you get to a mob men…”
Wilkinson: Underwriting software deals conservatively, shifting focus to communities
“Personally, when I'm underwriting software deals now, I am being incredibly conservative. And honestly, I'm much more focused on communities and social networks as a result. We still look at software when there's like a hardware component or there's some kind …”
Courtney: Dream 100 and community value bring 80% of early clients
“Those two things will get you like 80% of your clients in the first few months if you just do it like that.”
Isenberg: Creators are shifting from pure communities to multifaceted memberships
“Course creators are moving to communities, and communities are actually moving to memberships. And to me, there's a difference between community and a membership. A membership, yeah, my, a membership to me is, I'm paying for access to be, you know, I identify …”
Greg Isenberg argues venture capital and community building are completely incompatible
“I'm not a huge fan of venture capital and like venture funding communities, because I think what venture is, is I want to grow this as quick as possible, but the greatest communities, you know, it's oil and water with that.”
Dixon: Crypto enables community-owned services over corporate control
“I think the same thing's happening with crypto, where it's really a new way to build digital services that are owned and operated by Communities instead of being owned and operated by companies.”